School argues in new court filing that plaintiffs’ analysis of admissions data is ‘fundamentally’ flawed

Harvard University in a court filing Friday rebutted an analysis of six years of its admissions data as “fundamentally unreliable” because it cherry-picked certain groups of students to try to prove the university intentionally discriminates against Asian-American applicants.

The school also reiterated that it has tried alternatives to race-conscious affirmative action to diversify its undergraduate student body, but such efforts would harm both the diversity and academic strength of the class.